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Our Projects

Our charity began in the 1990s by providing financial aid to destitute single women, struggling to provide for their families where we offered opportunities to improve the living structures.Sometimes we would also offer small grants to enable some form of startup business, e.g. a sewing machine and materials. And at other times food, other basic necessities and urgent medical services or supplies would be needed.Over the years we’ve come to the realization that charity must be provided in a way that enables sustainability and our best efforts could only materialize through partnerships and providing support to individuals through other charitable entities.

Projects

The Caribbean Kids and Families Therapy Organization (CKFTO)

The Caribbean Kids and Families Therapy Organisation (CKFTO). As the organisation expanded, given the increasing demand for therapy services, WAND supported in the establishment of new therapy spaces for a host of additional new children.

The Couva Children’s Home

We have learned so much …and about each other. The idea of value adding is gaining traction within the school. … sit them down and speak to possible futures around cooperative/value-adding sustainable futures. This project has been able to prove that the Classroom with no walls has merit”

The Shelter

The Shelter, an organization established to assist survivors of domestic abuse, in building a new wing to triple the size of their intake—The Wand Wing. The work is 80 per cent complete – the floors, exterior walls, staircase, and roof are all complete and on schedule.

UWI Alma Jordan Library

Special Collections receive archives from WAND. Recognising the value of preserving our collective past, WAND handed over a special collection holding immense historical value, chronicles of the work of the organization WAND for the past 25 years. Historical and contemporary resources on women and their role in the development of our society are critical and must be illuminated.

Other Projects

  • The Shelter For Battered Women & Children
  • Nazareth Halfway House for Men
  • St Vincent de Paul
  • Learning Is For Everyone (LIFE)
  • Beausejour Community Centre
  • Living Water Community (Palo Seco)
  • Morvant/ Laventille Empowerment Program
  • St James Police Youth Club
  • Koora Camp Senior Citizens Home
  • Dean Arlen Heights of Aripo